Cigar-box



UNITED STATES PATENT @Erica SIGMUND COHN, OF MILWAUKEE, VISCONSIN.

CIGAR-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,119, dated @otoioer 25, 1887.

i Application filed March 15, 189]. Serial No. 220,950. (No modell To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIGMUND Conn, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee,and in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvem'entsin Cigar-Boxes; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact "description thereof.

My invention relates to cigar-boxes, and will be fully described hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal ,vertical section through an ordinary cigar'box as samples, and the object of my present iuvention` is to providea remedy therefor. To this end IV show both an ordinary cigar-box and a sample or tray box, as my improvement isadapted for both.

In Figure 1, A represents an ordinary cigarbox, the one shown being of the size to hold twenty-live cigars, or two layers; butthe size of box or number of layers is immaterial.

In Fig. 2 I show a sample-box from which the tray has been removed, but which tray is designed to rest on the ledges a. In this latter form there would only be needed in the box proper one of my devices,as shown at B, consisting of a strip of any suitable materialsuch as tin, brass, or even heavy lead-foil--pre'ssed into the required number of corrugations, so that each corrugation shall snugly hold one cigar. This strip B has upwardly-bent ends b b, by means of which it is tacked or otherwise fastened to the ends ofthe box.` In theform of box shown in Fig. 2 the tray would be similarly fitted up. In a common cigar-box, such as represented in Fig. 1, this simplest form of strip B would be used on the bottom of the box only, While for the layers of cigars above the bottom layer 'I would preferably use the form shown in Fig.

3, with the lateral extensions C C terminating in turned-up ends c c to be nailed against the sides of the box, and then, as the cigars are held in place by the corrugations of the strips B, and held down by like strips above, there can be no danger of the cigars rolling against each other, and thereby breaking the wrappers and becoming disligured or broken.

The cover of the box will hold the top layer down in place in an ordinary box, and the bottom of the tray will serve the same purposev in the sample-box shown in Fig. 2; but the strips B can be made with corrugations deep and elastic enough to practically hold the cigars in place even when a layer above them is removed, and thus by my invention a great objection to carrying cigars in boxes, whether for use in smoking or as samples, is obviated.

The strip B may be of any suitable material, and while thin sheet metal is probably the best, I may employ any substance that can be bent, pressed, molded, or shaped into the desired form, such as wood, paper, fabric, leather, papiermach, or any plastic composition.

As already stated, the number of layers of cigars in a box is immaterial, and the number of my corrugated strips consequently would be the same, only one strip being employed for each layer. I have stated that the turnedup ends of these strips are tacked or other- Wise fastened to the box ends. It is obvious, therefore,that for convenience, when, say, four of eight layers of cigars and a corresponding number of strips are placed in a box, it would be better to remove the top strip when there are no longer any cigars immediately under it, t in the gradual emptying of the box5) but as there will be sufficient elasticity to the strips to enable them to be raised up enough ICO receive a row of cigars between each two adjacent strips, substantially as set forth.

2. The' combination of a cigar-boX withn have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in narrow elastic corrugated strip, B, having the county of Milwaukee and State of \Viscon turned-up attaching ends b b, and central latsin, in the presence of two Witnesses.

eral extensions, G C, terminating in similzu1 SIGMUND COHN. 5 nptnrned attaching ends, c c, substantially as \Vitnesses:

set forth. H. G. UNDERWOOD, In testimony that I claim the foregoing I N. E. OLIPIIANT. 

